1. The safety rules must be followed at all times.
2. A wet-lab, MSA room 0216A, is available for use at all times by any user of the NMR facility.  After use, please clean-up after yourself.
3. Lab coats and gloves are not permitted inside MSA room 0216B.  Coats can be placed in the NMR facility’s wet-lab (MSA 0216A) and gloves can be discarded in the wet-lab’s garbage.
4. Broken, cracked, and heavily used NMR sample tubes must not be used.  NMR tubes must be a minimum of 7” in length.
5. All users will added to the NMR e-mail list and must read any e-mails sent out by the NMR facility.
6. Every Tuesday, one of the three spectrometers will be unavailable from 9:00 am until 2:00 pm for calibrations and testing. 
7. An offline computer is available for processing NMR data using Varian's VnmrJ software, Bruker's TopSpin softare and Mestrelab's Mnova software.  Bruker's TopSpin software can be downloaded for free from Bruker's website. Alternately, a license for Mnova for personal use can be obtained by contacting NMR Facility staff.
8. All NMR data is stored on the NMR Facility's data server and can be accessed using SFTP.   
9. If there are serious problems with the spectrometers during weekday evenings or weekends, please e-mail chemnmr@uwo.ca with a description of the problem.

Bruker 400 policies

1. Experiments submitted between 8:00 am – 6:00 pm on weekdays that are longer than 30 minutes will automatically be submitted to the night queue and begin after 6:00 pm.
2. Samples must be clearly labeled with your supervisor’s initials using a permanent marker on the cap itself, not the NMR tube.  Additional labels can be placed on the side of the cap.
3. Samples should be picked up within 48 hours of completion of the NMR experiment(s).  Samples are placed in the plastic tray on the Bruker console labeled “Current Week”.  On Monday morning of the next week, any remaining samples are transferred to the tray labeled “Last Week”, which is on the table at the back of the facility.  At the end of the following week, any samples left in the “Last Week” tray are placed in the “Free NMR Tubes” box and are free to any user of the facility.

Inova 600 and Bruker 600 policies

1. Time on the Inova 600 and Bruker 600 spectrometers is booked using the FACES NMR website, faces.ccrc.uga.edu.  Each user will be granted their own personal FACES account after receiving Inova training.  Under no circumstances are users allowed to book time using another user’s FACES account.
2. Arrive at your reserved NMR time promptly and ensure that you do not use more than your reserved time.
3. NMR time must be reserved regardless of the time or day.
4. No more than two hours of consecutive time can be booked on weekdays between 9:00 am – 6:00 pm; 3 hours are permitted for titrations, variable-temperature, and kinetics experiments upon approval by an NMR facility staff member.
5. Odd nuclei or variable-temperature experiments using the Inova 600 are not to be performed until training has been received from NMR facility staff.